Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 14 → 5 of 68
5 categories · RankedNorthflank
53Judge labels
2First choices
1Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Managed Kubernetes for small business buyers
Rank 12 of 52 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 76
4%17 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market12 of 52
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise16 of 52
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
In managed kubernetes · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Northflank for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 12 of 52 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Internal developer portals | Developer platform | 0% | 14 of 52 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Port at 53% | |
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 17 of 82 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| CI/CD platforms | Developer platform | 0% | 33 of 43 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 68% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 44 of 85 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Northflank held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed Kubernetes · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 11 of 46
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 14 of 47
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 14 → 12 of 52 |
| Developer portals | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 52, unchanged |
| Managed databases | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 17 of 82 |
| CI/CD | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 43, unchanged |
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 85, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Northflank across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Northflank across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct13 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative12 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained8 labels1
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Platforms like Northflank act as a developer-friendly PaaS built on top of managed Kubernetes (allowing you to Bring Your Own Cloud).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · scale prompt · alternative
“Other options to consider are Linode and Northflank, which offer Kubernetes-powered container orchestration” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed Kubernetes · budget prompt · alternative
“Choose Northflank, Civo, or DigitalOcean-style platforms if you care most about developer simplicity” Perplexity Sonar · Managed Kubernetes · comparative prompt · alternative
“Provides Kubernetes-powered container orchestration with PaaS-quality developer experience on top.” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed Kubernetes · direct prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Northflank, over the 53 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Northflank was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Northflank, over the 53 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Northflank was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Northflank. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 53 of the 53 answers that named Northflank and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
northflank.comYour site45
blog.railway.com20
spot.rackspace.com20
it-ai-index.com16
dev.to14
digitalocean.com14
g2.com14
medium.com13
qovery.com13
dupple.com12
136 of the 181 domain citations in answers naming Northflank came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
northflank.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Northflank takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.ShowHide
Search and answers
northflank.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Northflank takes 0% of first choices and Google Kubernetes Engine takes 43%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed kubernetes platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed kubernetes platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,300 a month (“northflank”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 48,493 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,287 · 649 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,948
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 12 of 52 in managed kubernetes
Segment leader
43%
Google Kubernetes Engine
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 53 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 53 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on northflank.com
5,639
subdomains included
Content
740
counted in the table below
Documentation
765
Product · Integration
14 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 340 | 95 | 2026-09-28 | Cloud hosting, Managed Kubernetes | |
| Comparison | 230 | 43 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Report or ebook | 119 | 1 | 2026-08-05 | Feature flags, APM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 35 | 8 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 1 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 1 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28How to run coding agents in the cloud blog
- 2026-09-28What are cloud coding agents blog
- 2026-09-25What is an agent harness glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-25Best code execution apis for ai agents blog
- 2026-09-25How to optimise gpu utilisation and reduce cloud costs blog
- 2026-09-24How to choose a bring your own cloud platform for your enterprise blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page northflank.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Northflank is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Northflank is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The runtime platform for AI-native companies
- For
- AI-native companies
- Price stated
- Free | Starts at $0/mo | Custom northflank.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $0/mo northflank.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free northflank.com
- Integrations claimed
- 3 northflank.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2 compliantHIPAA compliant
- Hosting
- Northflank CloudBring Your Own CloudGCPAWSAzureOracleCivoCoreWeave
- Customers named
- WeightsPolyguardSentryWriterBlynksolveCedanaPebblebed
What Northflank's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: northflank.com, northflank.com/pricing, trust.northflank.com, northflank.com/product/idp, northflank.com/guides/category/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Northflank by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Northflank is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Northflank, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.